مجلة علوم اللسان
Volume 2, Numéro 2, Pages 168-188
2013-12-01

Internet-based Activities And Intercultural Dimensions To Promote Efl Learners' Creative Si.i'ls. Case Of: Master Two Esp Students, Department Of English, University Of Bejaia

Authors : Maouche Née Ketfi Salima .

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore critically the participants' views regarding the integration of Internet-based activities and Intercultural education in the learning methods in order to promote greater understanding and acceptance of d{fference and otherness, as well as develop alternatives modes of providing our EFL learners with opportunities and techniques to improve their creative skills for more exposure to the present multicultural, multilingual and multimedia learning environments. Our purpose is therefore, to stress on the imperative assessment of the students as EFL learners and as people meant to become intercultural projèssionals, not only to be successful in communicating information. but in the way they express themselves in designing and putting projects forward as well as in putting the principles of writing coherently in the front position. Therefore implementing lnternet-based activities and considering the intercultural dimensions in the EFL learning process are, according to us, adequate techniques which can help our learners develop genuine writing performances and creativity, being aware of their strengths and weaknesses in the aforementioned skills. This paper answers the following question: 1-How can Intercultural dimensions help EFL learners become effective language users while writing and designing a project?

Keywords

Intemet-based activities; Intercultural Dimensions; Writing skills; creative skills